Category Archives: Early Childhood

Dexteria Jr App from Binary Labs

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

  Dexteria Jr. app for iPad (2.99) is described on Binary Labs website as “a set of hand and finger exercises that help develop fine motor skills and handwriting readiness. The activities are specially designed for kids age 2-5. New characters, … Continue reading →

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Orgami Genie App – On Sale (and other orgami resources!)

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Have you ever used origami as an activity for improving visual perceptual, fine motor and direction following with your students (or some adults if used for napkin folding, creating decorations?) ? I have used books and online resources for thematic origami used with … Continue reading →

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ClickySticky Easter App Gone Free

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Clicky Sticky Easter  for iPad app is a fun holiday activity providing fine motor and sticker fun for young kids. Created by the same developer as other ClickySticky apps, it provides opportunities to create scenes and characters using stickers.  Drag the parts … Continue reading →

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Bugs and Numbers App (Little Bit Studio offers a free code)

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Bugs and Numbers app is new iPhone/iPad app (2.99) developed by Little Bit Studio . The third of their educational apps, this app features math activities and provides  fine motor, visual motor and visual perceptual activities for preschool and elementary ability aged students. The … Continue reading →

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Bugs and Numbers App

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Bugs and Numbers app for iPhone/iPad (2.99) by Little Bit Studio, developers of the popular Bugs and Buttons and Bugs and Bubbles apps. The focus of Bugs and Number is to provide a wide range of math skill activities from counting … Continue reading →

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Mouse in a House Gone Free

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Mouse in a House app (Free) is an iPad game geared to young children who are learning basic shapes. Each shapes is hidden in one of seven different rooms of the mouse house (circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, ovals, diamonds, stars). … Continue reading →

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Valentines Day Apps and Activities

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Looking for more Valentines Theme apps? Here are a few apps and resources to help you with your search for Valentines Day themed apps:    Valentine Slider app – (free) Android. Provides some moderately completes designs for you to slide the … Continue reading →

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Playroom – Lessons with Max

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Originally posted on On Sarah's iPad:
Playroom – Lessons with Max is an App designed to help children of preschool and kindergarten age to learn early concepts.  There are five games in the app, each using the same characters, Max…

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Wheels on the Bus app – Free for it’s 4th Birthday!!

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Duck Duck Moose is having a birthday celebration! It is Duck Duck Moose’s  Wheels on the Bus app’s 4th birthday on January 27th. For the birthday celebration they are offering Wheels on the Bus for free on their Facebook page from Friday to … Continue reading →

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iTrace App

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

 iTrace app for iPad (3.99) is a new handwriting/letter formation app developed by Elately iTrace . Features of this app developed for writers ages 3-7 include: The ability to choose the letter formation style , enroll multiple users, track progress and provide incentives … Continue reading →

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